Between Transcendence and Historicism: The Ethical Nature of the Arts in Hegelian Aesthetics
Between Transcendence and Historicism explores Hegel's aesthetics within the larger context of the tradition of theoretical reflection to emphasize its unique ability to account for traditional artistic practice. Arguing that the concept of the ethical is central to Hegel's philosophy of art, Brian K. Etter examines the poverty of modernist aesthetic theories in contrast to the affirmation by Hegel of the necessity of art. He focuses on the individual arts in greater detail than is normally done for Hegel's aesthetics, and considers how the dual constitution of the ethical nature of art can be justified, both within Hegel's own philosophical system and in terms of its relevance to the dilemmas of modern social life. Etter concludes that the arts have a responsibility to represent the goodness of existence, the ideal, and the ethical life in dignifying the metaxological realm through their beauty.
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Between Transcendence and Historicism: The Ethical Nature of the Arts in Hegelian Aesthetics
Between Transcendence and Historicism explores Hegel's aesthetics within the larger context of the tradition of theoretical reflection to emphasize its unique ability to account for traditional artistic practice. Arguing that the concept of the ethical is central to Hegel's philosophy of art, Brian K. Etter examines the poverty of modernist aesthetic theories in contrast to the affirmation by Hegel of the necessity of art. He focuses on the individual arts in greater detail than is normally done for Hegel's aesthetics, and considers how the dual constitution of the ethical nature of art can be justified, both within Hegel's own philosophical system and in terms of its relevance to the dilemmas of modern social life. Etter concludes that the arts have a responsibility to represent the goodness of existence, the ideal, and the ethical life in dignifying the metaxological realm through their beauty.
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Between Transcendence and Historicism: The Ethical Nature of the Arts in Hegelian Aesthetics

Between Transcendence and Historicism: The Ethical Nature of the Arts in Hegelian Aesthetics

by Brian K. Etter
Between Transcendence and Historicism: The Ethical Nature of the Arts in Hegelian Aesthetics

Between Transcendence and Historicism: The Ethical Nature of the Arts in Hegelian Aesthetics

by Brian K. Etter

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Between Transcendence and Historicism explores Hegel's aesthetics within the larger context of the tradition of theoretical reflection to emphasize its unique ability to account for traditional artistic practice. Arguing that the concept of the ethical is central to Hegel's philosophy of art, Brian K. Etter examines the poverty of modernist aesthetic theories in contrast to the affirmation by Hegel of the necessity of art. He focuses on the individual arts in greater detail than is normally done for Hegel's aesthetics, and considers how the dual constitution of the ethical nature of art can be justified, both within Hegel's own philosophical system and in terms of its relevance to the dilemmas of modern social life. Etter concludes that the arts have a responsibility to represent the goodness of existence, the ideal, and the ethical life in dignifying the metaxological realm through their beauty.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780791482285
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 06/01/2006
Series: SUNY series in Hegelian Studies
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 270
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Brian K. Etter (1954–2005) was Associate Professor in Humanities at Kettering University and the author of From Classicism to Modernism: Western Musical Culture and the Metaphysics of Order.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Introduction

Part I. Art between Transcendence and Historicism

1. Is Art Necessary?

2. Beauty and the Transcendence of the Ideal

3. The Historicity of the Ideal and the End of Art

Part II. The Ethical Nature of the Arts

4. Beauty, the Ideal, and Representational Art

5. The Sounds of the Ideal

6. The Ethical Function of Poetry

7. Beauty and Ornament in Architectural Styles

Part III. The Foundations of Art

8. Art and the Beauty of the Ethical Order

9. Normativity in the Arts and the Particularity of Tradition

10. Art and the Beauty of the Absolute

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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